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What’s Your Vietnam War Draft Lottery Number?

The Vietnam War draft lottery ran from 1969 to 1972. If you were born on April 27, would your number have been called?

  • Vietnam War 1969 Lottery
    CalledDrafted
    74
  • Vietnam War 1970 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    235
  • Vietnam War 1971 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    124
  • Vietnam War 1972 Lottery
    Not CalledNot drafted
    265

Read on to learn more about the Vietnam war draft lottery.





more events on April 27

  • 1989

    Protesting students take over Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.

  • 1978

    The Afghanistan revolution begins.

  • 1975

    Saigon is encircled by North Vietnamese troops.

  • 1961

    The United Kingdom grants Sierra Leone independence.

  • 1950

    South Africa passes the Group Areas Act, formally segregating races.

  • 1941

    The Greek army capitulates to the invading Germans.

  • 1937

    German bombers of the Condor Legion devastate Guernica, Spain.

  • 1927

    Coretta Scott King, civil rights activist, wife of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • 1909

    The Sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamid II, is overthrown.

  • 1904

    Cecil Day-Lewis, Irish poet, father of actor Daniel Day-Lewis.

  • 1900

    Walter Lantz, cartoonist, creator of Woody Woodpecker.

  • 1865

    The Sultana, a steam-powered riverboat, catches fire and burns after one of its boilers explodes. At least 1,238 of the 2,031 passengers–mostly former Union POWs–are killed.

  • 1863

    The Army of the Potomac begins marching on Chancellorsville.

  • 1861

  • President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.

  • 1840

    Edward Whymper, the first man to climb the Matterhorn.

  • 1822

    Ulysses S. Grant, Union general during the American Civil War, 18th President of the United States (1869-1877).

  • 1813

    American forces capture York (present-day Toronto), the seat of government in Ontario.

  • 1791

    Samuel F.B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph and the code.

  • 1773

    British Parliament passes the Tea Act.

  • 1746

    King George II wins the Battle of Culloden.

  • 1737

    Edward Gibbon, historian (The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire).

  • 1565

    The first Spanish settlement in Philippines is established in Cebu City.

  • 1509

    Pope Julius II excommunicates the Italian state of Venice.

  • 1296

    Edward I defeats the Scots at the Battle of Dunbar.